In 1989 an ‘average Australian bloke’ had a simple idea to make a difference in his own backyard – Sydney Harbour. The event received an enormous public response with more than 40,000 Sydney siders donating their time and energy to clean up the harbour.

The next year Clean Up Australia Day was born. Ian and his committee believed that if a capital city could be mobilised into action, then so could the whole nation.

Almost 300,000 volunteers turned out on the first Clean Up Australia Day in 1990 and that involvement has steadily increased ever since.

In the past 20 years, Australians have devoted more than eight million hours towards the environment through Clean Up Australia Day and collected over 200,000 tonnes of rubbish. This simple idea has now become the nation’s largest community-based environmental event. *

This year the team at Gold Coast City Marina are getting their hands dirty and cleaning up the banks of the Coomera River.  Our ‘Clean up Site’ will encompasses a vast area of tidal river banks that flow out into the Broad Water here on the Gold Coast.

The date is set for Sunday the 4th of March, starting at 8am at Gold Coast City Marina’s admin building and finishing up at 4pm.

The more support we can get for this event the better our environment will look. If you would like to join our team and get your hands dirty, follow the link below for more information or email our ‘Clean Up Team Leader’ Steve Sammes with your contact details.

Click here for Coomera River Banks Clean Up Australia Day Site

* Extract from http://cleanupaustralia.wordpress.com/